Jega meets service chiefs, IGP others overpolls

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral
Committee, Prof Attahiru Jega, on Saturday, had
a closed-door meeting with the National Peace
Committee for 2015 General Elections chaired
by General Abdulsalami Abubakar (retd) over
the elections.
Others who attended the meeting were the
service chiefs including the Chief of Defence
Staff, Air Vice Marshal Alex Badeh; the
Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba,
and leadership of the major political parties.
The meeting also had in attendance the Sultan
of Sokoto, His Eminence Sa’ad Abubakar 111;
Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, John Cardinal
Onaiyekan ; Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese,
Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah; former Chief of
General Staff, Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe; Special
Adviser to the President on Inter- Party
Relations, Senator Ben Obi.
Jega and the security chiefs left the meeting
after a break but refused to disclose to
journalists the outcome of the meeting.
When the meeting came to a final close,
General Abubakar also refused to address the
media.
But a former Chief Judge of the Federal High
Court, Justice Rose Ukeje told journalists on
Saturday night that both INEC and the security
agencies had re-affirmed their commitment to
conduct the elections as scheduled.